Thor #1
Thor Vol. 2 #1 (1996, Planeta DeAgostini / Forum) marks the opening of the final Spanish-language reprint chapter of the original Mighty Thor volume in Spain — a 12-issue series that brought Warren Ellis's boundary-pushing 'Worldengine' arc and William Messner-Loebs's concluding run directly to Spanish-speaking readers just as the American series was closing out its historic 30-year first volume. As the book that introduced Spanish audiences to Ellis's radical reinvention of Thor — stripping the Thunder God of Asgard and leaving him mortal, shirtless, and living with the Enchantress in Manhattan — it represents a rare moment where a local-market reprint captured a genuinely disruptive creative pivot in real time. The series closed with the same issue (#12) that reprinted the American finale, US #502, making this inaugural issue the gateway to the last gasp of Thor's first era before Heroes Reborn dismantled the entire Asgardian status quo.
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Planeta DeAgostini, the Barcelona-headquartered joint venture between Grupo Planeta and De Agostini, had long held the Marvel reprint license for Spain and much of Latin America, distributing titles under its Forum imprint in the standard Spanish grapa (stapled pamphlet) format. This Thor series launched in 1996 to carry the tail end of the American vol. 1 run — specifically the Ellis/Deodato 'Worldengine' arc beginning at US #491 — at a moment when Marvel itself was financially precarious and editorially in flux, handing short creative runs to writers like Warren Ellis partly as emergency reinventions before the Heroes Reborn restructuring wiped the slate clean. No production-side details specific to the Spanish edition's editorial decisions (cover alterations, added material, or local introductions) were recoverable from available online sources.
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- Published by Planeta DeAgostini under its Forum imprint, Barcelona, Spain; part of the 'Thor Vol. 2 (1996–1997)' Spanish series running 12 issues total.
- Format: stapled pamphlet (grapa), 24 pages, color, standard Spanish 17×26 cm dimensions.
- Based on issue sequencing (Spanish #3 reprints US The Mighty Thor #493, Spanish #12 reprints US #502), Spanish issue #1 most likely reprints The Mighty Thor (US vol. 1) #491 — the opening chapter of Warren Ellis and Mike Deodato Jr.'s 'Worldengine' story arc.
- The 'Worldengine' arc (US #491–494) was written by Warren Ellis with art by Mike Deodato Jr. and colors by Marie Javins; it radically repositioned Thor as mortal and estranged from Asgard.
- William Messner-Loebs scripted the concluding issues of the US run (#495–502), with Deodato continuing on art; the full arc brought Thor to the end of the original volume before Heroes Reborn.
- The American source series, The Mighty Thor vol. 1, ended with US #502 (September 1996) after a continuous run beginning in 1966 — the title then reverted to Journey into Mystery with #503.
- Following Heroes Reborn, Thor was relaunched in the US with Thor vol. 2 #1 (July 1998); a separate subsequent Planeta DeAgostini Spanish series (Thor Vol. 3, 1999–2002) reprinted that new volume.
- The full US run reprinted across this Spanish series — #491–502 — was later collected in English in the Thor Epic Collection Vol. 23: Worldengine (2018).
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